New Xbox Live Gold Subscribers Get Fable III, Halo Reach & More Free When You Sign Up For Six Months

Microsoft has launched a limited-time promotion to attract new subscribers to Xbox Live Gold (the full Xbox 360 online service). The offer, which is available directly through the Xbox 360 dashboard, gifts new customers Halo: Reach, Fable III, Kinect Sports, The Gunstringer and Toy Soldier for free when they buy a six month Xbox Live Gold subscription for £26.66.

This might seem pricey, but the five games would normally cost £125 if downloaded via Xbox Live.

The promotion is not available to current Xbox Live Gold users and ends on April 3rd 2012. [Gamerzines]

If you go for this offer be sure to cancel the auto-renew - which I is on by default. You don't want to pay that sort of money for another 6 months when this one runs out. Canny shoppers get their gold subs for around £1 a month, so £26.66 for 6 months is ratehr pricey.

Decent deal, though, if you want a few of those games - but I note 2 of the 5 are for Kinect users only, and most (or all) of the games can be had second hand for about £3-5 each...